I need to buy a more modern phone, my old motorola is limping along on three legs now but I refuse to buy a phone that is based on MS or Symbian. I do NOT trust either of them, at all. I DO trust Linux.
I wouldn't use Vista on a bet. Sadly though, I have to support people that do use it so I have a Vista machine that I fire up only for tech support purposes. It's used for no other reason or occasion.
I bought the retail Suse 10.0 last year. When 10.1 came out I tried that and it is total shit. Nothing works right, ALL the multimedia features are crippled and the package management system sucks ass.
After two weeks I dumped Xgl & Compiz because it's broken crap that can't go an hour without crashing and locking up. After a month I gave up on 10.1 totally. I reformatted the drive and did a fresh, clean install of 10.0 retail and by that evening I was up and running with everything working properly as it should.
Suse 10.0 is a little slow and clunky on my Athlon 64 3500+ w/1gb ram but it's tolerable. The 64bit version has way too many short comings to use, namely it won't support my proprietary and very expensive Epson scanner. So until Epson/Avasys releases a 64bit driver I'm stuck in 32bit hell..
As for Suse 10.2, no way in hell.. 10.1 was a piece of steaming monkey crap. 10.2 will be a piece of steaming gorilla crap.
Mod me down but I've been using Suse since the 7.x days and I use it daily on several machines...
I wish they would find a better and easier way to service Hubble. Even though it got off to a rough start, it's been one of the best things NASA ever put into space. Sure, it will be superceded in the future with something better but even so, it's a magnificent tool and should be kept in service as long as physically possible.
I had some Mexican gang bangers living next door to me, they were selling drugs out of the house and walking around with guns trying to intimidate me.
I had heard that Mexicans are very superstitious about stuff like "the evil eye" and other silly nonsense like that. So I went online and found a high res photo of an eye, I printed it out in poster format and taped the poster up in my window. The window faced their back porch directly where they all hung out smoking and drinking. A few days of this huge eye staring at them and they moved out. Yes, indeed, they rented a U-haul truck and packed it up..
I can't PROVE it was the eye that did it but what else?
Look in the upper left corner, all the text from the left sid menus jumped to the top and is all overlayed on top of each other in an unreadable jumble. Not to mention, unusable..
I have been using Suse for years, back to the 7.x days and Linux in general even longer, I still have my factory original Redhat 3.1 CD. Yes, a single CDR.. ( http://img436.imageshack.us/img436/7408/dscn20214w e.jpg ) I also have a Redhat 5.1 CDR too. Both these discs are fully functional and installable, circa 1994ish ?? I think..
Anyway, Suse 10.1 SUCKS.. SUCKS with a capital SUCK.
This weekend I will be downgrading it to 10.0 (I was not too thrilled with 10.0 but it's better than this crap)
Unless you want a miserable hellish nightmare trying to install *other* apps stay away.
The Zen thingy is a piece of crap. It won't let me install apt/synaptic which is what I have been using for a few years now.
I am afraid that this will be my last hurrah with Suse. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn Gentoo. Before this year is out I plan to be dual booting OSX and Gentoo..
Buh bye Suse, you f**ked it up.. It was fun though..
One thing someone pointed out to me is the "smart" installer. Go to yast and search for "smart" then install it. It's similar (but not the same) as apt/synaptic. It will at least let you get some of the basic packages installed, you also have to paste this into a console, 'smart channel --add http://divine160281.di.funpic.de/smart-channel.txt' to give you access to third party packages.
But all in all, I'm very unhappy in general with Suse 10.1 and will be downgrading to 10.0 no matter what. And forget about bling-bling compiz, that's a freaking disaster. You like to torture yourself? Play with compiz. Guaranteed to crash more often that M$ winders..
Once they get compiz and Xgl debugged I'll be thrilled to play with it again but it's way to unstable for me. I need stability. I have no tolerance for buggy crap.
Dare I ask: did you think about any of this when you acquired this hardware, and consider acquiring equivalent hardware which didn't need proprietary drivers?
Well, Nvidia.. What other choice is there? ATI? That's a no-go for Linux, you couldn't give me an ATI card. I have no complaint at all with Nvidia other than price. And I don't mind using the proprietary Nvidia drivers at all, they work pretty darn good.
As for the scanner, it was given to me for free. These things are close to 2 grand new. Plus, when I got it I was running Suse 9.3 pro 32bit on a 32bit P4. I upgraded to an AMD 64 last year and then followed that up with an upgrade to Suse 10.0 retail for 64bit. After discovering that many things under 64bit have issues I abandoned 64bit and went back down to 32bit Suse 10.0 (which sucks too)
I'm in the process of migrating to Gentoo 64bit. I'm going to keep the 32bit Suse installation available, I am dual booting between the two right now. When I need to scan I'll just boot into Suse then reboot back into Gentoo..
It's a pain in the ass but it will have to do until avasys(Epson) releases 64bit drivers.
I have two problems, 1. I use Nvidia. What else can I do? I have to use the drivers provided by Nvidia.
2. I have a very expensive A3 (Epson GT-1000) scanner. The drivers for it are also proprietary and only available through Epson (Avasys). And they are 32bit only. That pisses me off because I am stuck running 32bit Suse rather than 64bit just so I can use this scanner. And I'm not just going to chunk out the scanner. Avasys shows no interest in working with the 64bit world. Questions posed to their support dept and or forum concerning 64bit go unresponded.
I DESPISE the proprietary drivers but there are no other options. You take what you can get. Not all of us are rocket scientists that can write our own drivers and programs.
I don't just starting ripping open random trash bags. I don't open trash bags at all, ever. I just look on the side of the road when I'm out and about.
If I can see something sitting on a pile I stop and pick it up. I haven't bought anything new in years. People throw away some really good stuff. It's insane but hey, it works for me...
You can get obsolete stuff (anything more than a year old now) for rock bottom prices and often you can pick it up off of trash piles for free.
I grabbed a really nice mf printer/scanner/copier off a trash pile the other day that works great, they even put the manuals inside. It was clean and in perfect working order. I guess they had to have the bleeding edge product of the week. Works for me..
You can't imagine how much cool stuff I get out of trash piles and how much money I save. I wasn't born with the "trendy gene"..
http://www.systemrecycler.com/ Disabled guy takes old equipment, cleans and refurbishs it, repairs it if needed, loads Linux and gives it away to the needy. Some of it is resold to cover basic costs but it's pretty much a non-profit.
you can kiss stem cell research off. Bu$h and his fan club of bible thumpers are technophobes and anti-science MORONS...
While they get directions from an invisible being in the sky about waging war against other countries, people here will unnessecarily die of all sorts of nasty diseases simply because a minority of morons quiver in fear of spooks in the sky.
Thanks! I'm not 100% Gentoo literate quite yet. I still struggle with it. I've gotten to be very spoiled with Suse. I've been on Suse about 2 years now and it's really isolated me from the nuts and bolts of Linux. Suse and Yast has been like having training wheels on a tricycle.
I see Gentoo being picked up by a lot of people that have otherwise avoided it before!
I'm currently dual booting gentoo 2005.1 (amd64) and Suse 10 (x86) Suse 10 is buggy but there are some 32bit only apps I'm stuck with, like the proprietary drivers for my very expensive scanner, hence the dual booting.
I'll be emerging 2006.0 overnight and we'll see what new goodies we get. Personally I'm extremely disappointed that the still are stuck on KDE 3.4 WTF is up with that? They claim 3.5 isn't stable yet. What are they smoking? I've been using KDE 3.5 on my Suse since last year. Come on Gentoo, get with the program!
As soon as I can figure out how to make my scanner work under Gentoo AMD64 I'm going to pretty much dump Suse. Suse 10.0 is bug city. I should have know better than to buy a DOT OH.. (yes, I bought the full retail package)
Well, the main thing is, it's MY body. I make the decisions as to what goes into it or not. It's MY choice and no one has the right to supercede my decisions, ever.
If my views are seen as "odd" or unrealistic by others then that's just too bad because it's MY body and MY life.
No one can force me to have something put into my body against my own free will. "We are going to put this anonymously donated kidney into you, it's for your own good, end of discussion."
"We are going to put this RFID transmitter into you, it's for your own good, end of discussion."
Neither of the above scenarios are acceptable to me.
When I began dealing with the doctors on this surgery they thought I was insane and we had bitter arguments over the fine points of the procedures. They insisted on doing it the way they saw fit. And I persisted and stood fast. It was done on MY terms.
Besides, this wasn't some "lowest bidder insurance case", I PAID CASH for the services rendered, paid in full, 1/2 before and 1/2 upon completion. No insurance companies were involved, no public health services either. This wasn't a charity case where they dictate to you how it will be done.
I really don't care if my beliefs and views don't rub well with people.
What about the blood?? You felt safer receiving that from another person??
Absolutely not. That didn't happen either. Never will.
Before the surgery I stockpiled my own blood, one unit per week, I had 5 units of my own blood on standby in case I needed it during the surgery.
I thought of all these things before hand.
I also carry a card in my wallet stating that in case of emergency I refuse blood, plasma, tissue or body parts from anyone other than my blood relatives. If it means the difference between taking a transfusion from the public blood supply or laying there and dying, I choose to die. I refuse anonymous donations of anything going into my body. This also includes bio-engineered body parts like pig and mouse freakshow parts. No animal parts, no thanks.
And no, I'm not a religious fanatic, I'm an Atheist 101%.
Why? Because I don't want to catch any of the hundreds of disgusting diseases currently available through blood transfusions and organ/tissue donations. Thanks, but no thanks.
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Poison my dog and *you* get instant lead poisoning.
Get a life.
I need to buy a more modern phone, my old motorola is limping along on three legs now but I refuse to buy a phone that is based on MS or Symbian. I do NOT trust either of them, at all.
I DO trust Linux.
It's already in the works..
Maybe you should upgrade to Vista?
There is no such thing as an "upgrade" to Vista.
I wouldn't use Vista on a bet. Sadly though, I have to support people that do use it so I have a Vista machine that I fire up only for tech support purposes. It's used for no other reason or occasion.
I bought the retail Suse 10.0 last year.
When 10.1 came out I tried that and it is total shit.
Nothing works right, ALL the multimedia features are crippled and the package management system sucks ass.
After two weeks I dumped Xgl & Compiz because it's broken crap that can't go an hour without crashing and locking up. After a month I gave up on 10.1 totally. I reformatted the drive and did a fresh, clean install of 10.0 retail and by that evening I was up and running with everything working properly as it should.
Suse 10.0 is a little slow and clunky on my Athlon 64 3500+ w/1gb ram but it's tolerable.
The 64bit version has way too many short comings to use, namely it won't support my proprietary and very expensive Epson scanner. So until Epson/Avasys releases a 64bit driver I'm stuck in 32bit hell..
As for Suse 10.2, no way in hell.. 10.1 was a piece of steaming monkey crap. 10.2 will be a piece of steaming gorilla crap.
Mod me down but I've been using Suse since the 7.x days and I use it daily on several machines...
I wish they would find a better and easier way to service Hubble.
Even though it got off to a rough start, it's been one of the best things NASA ever put into space.
Sure, it will be superceded in the future with something better but even so, it's a magnificent tool and
should be kept in service as long as physically possible.
I had some Mexican gang bangers living next door to me, they were selling drugs out of the house and walking around with guns trying to intimidate me.
I had heard that Mexicans are very superstitious about stuff like "the evil eye" and other silly nonsense like that. So I went online and found a high res photo of an eye, I printed it out in poster format and taped the poster up in my window. The window faced their back porch directly where they all hung out smoking and drinking. A few days of this huge eye staring at them and they moved out. Yes, indeed, they rented a U-haul truck and packed it up..
I can't PROVE it was the eye that did it but what else?
Here's what it looks like in Konq 3.5.3
j pg
Look in the upper left corner, all the text from the left sid menus jumped to the top and is all overlayed on top of each other in an unreadable jumble. Not to mention, unusable..
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7/omfgx4818yv.
What the hell have you folks done to /. ??????
Everything here looks totally dicked up with Konqueror !!
It looks totally different than it did yesterday, all the text is messed up and unreadable!
You've changed something since yesterday and it's not for the better!
Do you try these changes out before you implement them? I thought this was a pro Linux place..
WTF??
I have been using Suse for years, back to the 7.x days and Linux in general even longer, I still have my factory original Redhat 3.1 CD. Yes, a single CDR..w e.jpg ) I also have a Redhat 5.1 CDR too. Both these discs are fully functional and installable, circa 1994ish ?? I think..
t ' to give you access to third party packages.
( http://img436.imageshack.us/img436/7408/dscn20214
Anyway, Suse 10.1 SUCKS.. SUCKS with a capital SUCK.
This weekend I will be downgrading it to 10.0 (I was not too thrilled with 10.0 but it's better than this crap)
Unless you want a miserable hellish nightmare trying to install *other* apps stay away.
The Zen thingy is a piece of crap. It won't let me install apt/synaptic which is what I have been using for a few years now.
I am afraid that this will be my last hurrah with Suse. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn Gentoo. Before this year is out I plan to be dual booting OSX and Gentoo..
Buh bye Suse, you f**ked it up.. It was fun though..
One thing someone pointed out to me is the "smart" installer. Go to yast and search for "smart" then install it. It's similar (but not the same) as apt/synaptic. It will at least let you get some of the basic packages installed, you also have to paste this into a console, 'smart channel --add http://divine160281.di.funpic.de/smart-channel.tx
But all in all, I'm very unhappy in general with Suse 10.1 and will be downgrading to 10.0 no matter what. And forget about bling-bling compiz, that's a freaking disaster. You like to torture yourself? Play with compiz. Guaranteed to crash more often that M$ winders..
Once they get compiz and Xgl debugged I'll be thrilled to play with it again but it's way to unstable for me. I need stability. I have no tolerance for buggy crap.
It's called "materialism"..
Three words come to mind. Burn baby burn!
Yeah!
Blipverts.
Dare I ask: did you think about any of this when you acquired this hardware, and consider acquiring equivalent hardware which didn't need proprietary drivers?
Well, Nvidia.. What other choice is there? ATI? That's a no-go for Linux, you couldn't give me an ATI card. I have no complaint at all with Nvidia other than price. And I don't mind using the proprietary Nvidia drivers at all, they work pretty darn good.
As for the scanner, it was given to me for free. These things are close to 2 grand new. Plus, when I got it I was running Suse 9.3 pro 32bit on a 32bit P4. I upgraded to an AMD 64 last year and then followed that up with an upgrade to Suse 10.0 retail for 64bit. After discovering that many things under 64bit have issues I abandoned 64bit and went back down to 32bit Suse 10.0 (which sucks too)
I'm in the process of migrating to Gentoo 64bit. I'm going to keep the 32bit Suse installation available, I am dual booting between the two right now.
When I need to scan I'll just boot into Suse then reboot back into Gentoo..
It's a pain in the ass but it will have to do until avasys(Epson) releases 64bit drivers.
I have two problems,
1. I use Nvidia. What else can I do? I have to use the drivers provided by Nvidia.
2. I have a very expensive A3 (Epson GT-1000) scanner. The drivers for it are also proprietary and only available through Epson (Avasys). And they are 32bit only.
That pisses me off because I am stuck running 32bit Suse rather than 64bit just so I can use this scanner. And I'm not just going to chunk out the scanner.
Avasys shows no interest in working with the 64bit world. Questions posed to their support dept and or forum concerning 64bit go unresponded.
I DESPISE the proprietary drivers but there are no other options. You take what you can get. Not all of us are rocket scientists that can write our own drivers and programs.
Dude. Think..
I don't just starting ripping open random trash bags.
I don't open trash bags at all, ever.
I just look on the side of the road when I'm out and about.
If I can see something sitting on a pile I stop and pick it up.
I haven't bought anything new in years. People throw away some really good stuff. It's insane but hey, it works for me...
I wait until stuff is obsolete to get it.
Really.
You can get obsolete stuff (anything more than a year old now) for rock bottom prices and often you can pick it up off of trash piles for free.
I grabbed a really nice mf printer/scanner/copier off a trash pile the other day that works great, they even put the manuals inside. It was clean and in perfect working order. I guess they had to have the bleeding edge product of the week.
Works for me..
You can't imagine how much cool stuff I get out of trash piles and how much money I save. I wasn't born with the "trendy gene"..
http://www.systemrecycler.com/
Disabled guy takes old equipment, cleans and refurbishs it, repairs it if needed, loads Linux and gives it away to the needy.
Some of it is resold to cover basic costs but it's pretty much a non-profit.
you can kiss stem cell research off. Bu$h and his fan club of bible thumpers are technophobes and anti-science MORONS...
While they get directions from an invisible being in the sky about waging war against other countries, people here will unnessecarily die of all sorts of nasty diseases simply because a minority of morons quiver in fear of spooks in the sky.
Hey!
You left out a few fucks there. Had you thrown in just 2 more fucks your post would have been modded +5 insightful..
Thanks.
Thanks!
I'm not 100% Gentoo literate quite yet.
I still struggle with it. I've gotten to be very spoiled with Suse.
I've been on Suse about 2 years now and it's really isolated me from the
nuts and bolts of Linux. Suse and Yast has been like having training wheels on a tricycle.
I see Gentoo being picked up by a lot of people that have otherwise avoided it before!
I'm currently dual booting gentoo 2005.1 (amd64) and Suse 10 (x86)
Suse 10 is buggy but there are some 32bit only apps I'm stuck with,
like the proprietary drivers for my very expensive scanner, hence the dual booting.
I'll be emerging 2006.0 overnight and we'll see what new goodies we get.
Personally I'm extremely disappointed that the still are stuck on KDE 3.4
WTF is up with that? They claim 3.5 isn't stable yet. What are they smoking?
I've been using KDE 3.5 on my Suse since last year.
Come on Gentoo, get with the program!
As soon as I can figure out how to make my scanner work under Gentoo AMD64 I'm going to pretty much dump Suse. Suse 10.0 is bug city. I should have know better than to buy a DOT OH.. (yes, I bought the full retail package)
Bottom line, watch Gentoo grow now!
Well, the main thing is, it's MY body. I make the decisions as to what goes into it or not. It's MY choice and no one has the right to supercede my decisions, ever.
If my views are seen as "odd" or unrealistic by others then that's just too bad because it's MY body and MY life.
No one can force me to have something put into my body against my own free will.
"We are going to put this anonymously donated kidney into you, it's for your own good, end of discussion."
"We are going to put this RFID transmitter into you, it's for your own good, end of discussion."
Neither of the above scenarios are acceptable to me.
When I began dealing with the doctors on this surgery they thought I was insane and we had bitter arguments over the fine points of the procedures.
They insisted on doing it the way they saw fit. And I persisted and stood fast.
It was done on MY terms.
Besides, this wasn't some "lowest bidder insurance case", I PAID CASH for the services rendered, paid in full, 1/2 before and 1/2 upon completion.
No insurance companies were involved, no public health services either. This wasn't a charity case where they dictate to you how it will be done.
I really don't care if my beliefs and views don't rub well with people.
What about the blood?? You felt safer receiving that from another person??
Absolutely not. That didn't happen either. Never will.
Before the surgery I stockpiled my own blood, one unit per week, I had 5 units of my own blood on standby in case I needed it during the surgery.
I thought of all these things before hand.
I also carry a card in my wallet stating that in case of emergency I refuse blood, plasma, tissue or body parts from anyone other than my blood relatives.
If it means the difference between taking a transfusion from the public blood supply or laying there and dying, I choose to die. I refuse anonymous donations of anything going into my body. This also includes bio-engineered body parts like pig and mouse freakshow parts. No animal parts, no thanks.
And no, I'm not a religious fanatic, I'm an Atheist 101%.
Why? Because I don't want to catch any of the hundreds of disgusting diseases currently available through blood transfusions and organ/tissue donations.
Thanks, but no thanks.